Health Related Quality of Life Assessment questionnaire for children aged 5 to 11 years with HIV/AIDS: cross-cultural adaptation for the Portuguese language

• Main Authors: Luciana Scarlazzari Costa, Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre, Norman Hearst, Heloisa Helena de Souza Marques
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2011-07-01
• Series: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Subjects: Qualidade de Vida; Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida; Criança; Questionários
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2011000700020&lng=en&tlng=en

The objective of this study is to describe preliminary results from the cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality of Life Assessment Questionnaire, used to measure health related quality of life (HRQL) in Brazilian children aged between 5 and 11 with HIV/AIDS. The cross-cultural model evaluated the Concept, Item, Semantic and Measurement Equivalences (internal consistency and intra-observer reliability). Evaluation of the conceptual, item, semantic equivalences showed that the Portuguese version is pertinent for the Brazilian context. Four of seven domains showed internal consistency above 0.70 (α: 0.76-0.90) and five of seven revealed intra-observer reliability (ricc: 0.41-0.70). This first Portuguese version of the HRQL questionnaire can be understood as a valuable tool for assessing children's HRQL, but further studies with large samples and more robust analyses are recommended before use in the Brazilian context.